Law

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman was reprimanded by a federal judge Wednesday for speaking publicly in violation of her gag order in his criminal case. The rebuke of Paul Manafort came as he pleaded not guilty to ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with a digital-age legal dilemma: Can the U.S. government use a warrant to force a U.S. company – in this case, Microsoft – to turn over data stored in a server overseas? ...

A federal judge whom President Donald Trump suggested would be biased against him because of the judge’s “Mexican” heritage sided with the administration Tuesday in a lawsuit over whether officials could move forward with expedited plans to build a border ...

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that a new task force would target drug manufacturers and distributors for their roles in the opioid epidemic, raising the possibility of filing criminal charges against them. The Justice Department also filed ...

A federal lawsuit accusing Rochester police officers of assaulting a man three years ago has been settled for $7,500. Plaintiff Delmar Lipford accused five officers of “stopping, searching, assaulting and battering” him, then lying about the incident and falsely accusing ...

NEW YORK — A former top aide to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo proved his guilt by repeatedly quoting from the mob drama “The Sopranos” as he described bribes he was receiving from three businessmen, a prosecutor told jurors as closing ...

WASHINGTON — A “Make America Great Again” hat. A tea party T-shirt. A MoveOn.org button. Wear any one of those items to vote in Minnesota, and a poll worker will probably ask you to remove it or cover it up. ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday said immigrants held by the government and facing deportation are not entitled to a bond hearing even after months or years of detention. The decision on the case, which had resulted in a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging federal laws criminalizing marijuana as unconstitutional, saying the five plaintiffs had failed to pursue changes in the drug’s legal status by first going through the Drug Enforcement Administration. ...

A Rochester City Court judge has suppressed witness identification evidence in a misdemeanor criminal trespass case because the procedure used by police was “unconstitutionally suggestive.” Judge Ellen M. Yacknin held a Wade hearing on Jan. 4 in the case of ...

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed sharply Monday over the right of public-sector workers to refuse to pay union fees, while the justice who will cast the deciding vote kept silent during an hour-long argument. Justice Neil Gorsuch, President ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to enter the national controversy over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), turning down the Trump administration’s request to immediately review lower court decisions that keep in place the program that protects ...